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NOVEMBER 2008
OK, OK, so I know Christmas is coming but this is just silly... and it's not even the season yet!
I am in Manchester at the moment and I have just walked past a BLING version of Auckland's much loved Farmers Santa, It's being erected on top of the city's town hall, this Santa doesn't have the mechanical 'come hither children' beckoning finger or the sleazy wink but it is covered head to toe in sparkling rhinestones... I am not sure the real Santa would approve of this lavish and slightly eccentric replica but then again he may quite like a bit of a sparkle in his suit... you know, more of an evening look.
Can anyone tell me when Christmas started coming around so quickly? If I was 6 years old begging for a 'My Little Pony' or a He-Man figure I may not have such an issue but did I lose a month or two somewhere? Did Christmas get relocated? It is November isn't it? I can still hear fire crackers screeching and banging in the distance! Come on people, I need a bit of breathing space between festivities, it's all getting a bit much.. I'm not sure if I'm coming or going, banging or cracking! errm that's Christmas crackers I am cracking...
I guess it's wise to be onto it this Christmas, you know beat the rush... you could be one of those people at the office that says 3 weeks before Christmas. "I have officially done all my Christmas shopping and they are all wrapped, labeled and under the tree," (uugghh! who says officially anyway - did they get a gold star or a certificate from an elf saying well done it's official according to Santa you're a Christmas present buying genius?). Then a smugness covers their face 2 days before Christmas as the rest of us are donning gloves and scarves in preparation for trudging around the cold dark streets of London on a present buying marathon, spending stupid amounts of money on papaya body lotion and relaxing bath salts. (Come on! no one's scummy London flat has a bath nice enough to spend time soaking in...)
Beat the queues this Chrissy. Shop online with Hforhome, sit back and relax but careful not to burn your legs with your overheating laptop!
Make your purchase before the 19/12/08 to get your pressies delivered on time.
How many sleeps till Santa? 45 last time I checked.
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JULY 2008
Hforhome Garage Sale
Even though we don't have a garage here in the big brown metropolis we thought it would be a good idea to have an online garage sale. We spent all night getting the signs ready and putting hand drawn arrows all over the local neighborhood. We have dragged a lifetime of memories out onto the oil stained floor of Dads garage.
Its 6am and everything is set up and ready to go. Mum has a hot mug of tea in hand and her fluorescent green belt bag on full of change. It's business time!
The shell sculpture souvenir my Aunty brought Mum back from Fiji was not surprisingly the first sale of the day, there was a bit of friendly bargaining on the 'As Seen On TV' Absersizer (its still in the original box...) and my collection of Rhythm Volume cassette tapes and SEGA mega drive cartridges sold for five dollars.
Its hard to let go sometimes...
Mike is finally letting go of his Tamiya grasshopper and Mark realised that it was time to pass on his X-men collectors cards - Wolverine wasn't such a good investment after all... and my sister is hoping to make a bit of extra cash selling her stack hat and pink 10 speed.
Ahhhh nothing like a good clear out and watching happy customers walk away with a bargain.
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JUNE 2008
I know, I know, it has been a wee while since we said Kia Ora... but wedding season in New Zealand is finally over and most of us have returned to our home away from home for one more year...
Ahhh, it's summertime in the land of old blighty and the weather is easy... and when it's summertime it means the white legs of Britain walk the streets and sweat patches appear on every heat exhausted
commuter... it means Pimms on the river, picnics on the heath, village fetes and festivals!
Who can resist a muddy campsite, dancing in gumboots, ahem I mean wellies and soaking up the long awaited sunshine... Not us!
We are off to a few festivals this year, and although the likes of Glastonbury will never be a patch on the Big Day Out it's good to check them out. Right?
Wear Hforhome this summer and have a jolly good knees up!
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APRIL 2008
Hforhome will be selling threads at the The ANZAC Sports Challenge on Saturday 26th April 2008, Twyford Ave Sports Grounds, Acton. Come and say hello, we would love to get to know you.
Heres what its all about...
The ANZAC Sports Challenge is a sports gala day in London to bring the two great nations of Australia and New Zealand together for a day of remembrance and respect for the ANZACs from 1915 and thereafter.
As well as great sport action there will be a New Zealand and Australian expo village with all your favourite goodies from back home as well as information for people looking at relocating to New Zealand or Australia and a huge beer tent with over 20 types of beer from NZ and OZ
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FEBRUARY 2008
So it's a new year... Holy moly it's already February, and although you did get up and go for that one run it hardly counts as a 'new you' does it? And let's face it, last weekend was a bit of a write-off... What have you been doing? Ok, ok, it's winter- this summer will be different: you'll go out running in the common, play a spot of cricket, eat lots of fresh salads and only then will you wash it all down with a few well-earned cold pints.... ahhhhh hello 2008!
So news from home is that it's been HOT, we know cos some of us were there over the festive season. And yes, it's true that a pie or 5 was consumed, along with the odd hokey pokey double scoop (still only $1.50 at a dairy twenty metres from the sea). In between pies and ice creams an Hforhomer was spotted more than few times heading back to the beach with a piping hot newspaper package under a sunbrowned arm... yummo.
So we're back in old London Town for another year and wondering why... No, it's not all crisp mornings and blue skies, is it? Nope, not a lot of fun traipsing around half of London looking for a new flat - one that's not in Mile end, Morden or Leyton!
Dossing is a laugh?to start with? but when you wake up for the fourth morning in a row to find your bum on the ground and a half deflated air bed slowly devouring you, and you're slowly running out of peanut slabs, vegemite (in a big jar) and pineapple lumps as forms of payment, it's time to take action!
Yes, it's time to shake off that January-long slumber (or hangover, perhaps). Go on, go on, get out and get stuck into the circus that is the big brown metropolis of London! Yes, yes, we know, NZ's great? but didn't everyone tell you when you called them at new years "it'll always be there"? hmmm?
Right then! New job, new flat, new pubs to break in and new plans for another year of overseas "experience". Even Mum said it was ok, as long as you come back next year for your cousin Kathleen's wedding?
Get your friends an Hforhome tee or hoodie to say thanks for letting you doss... www.hforhome.co.uk
They won't mind if it is a few months late now you have that nice secure job.
Put the kettle on, make yourself at home
